Please help with colors (not a design pro)

[BlueSquirrel]

Hi,

I can't seem to get the color management right. On Paint I can make Gray, but on AD it's brown. Also on paint, I'm able to get Hue Sat Lum AND RGB in same dialog window. How do I do this in AD? Here's side by side comparison.

Also, note in 2nd screen shot, I can only get Lum to 100 max but in paint , the gray is 120, 

TIA

[Alfred]

31 minutes ago, BlueSquirrel said:

I can't seem to get the color management right. On Paint I can make Gray, but on AD it's brown.

You’re probably using the wrong colour profile. Please see this post:

 

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Also, note in 2nd screen shot, I can only get Lum to 100 max but in paint , the gray is 120,

The value 100 is a percentage. I think the mid-grey in MS Paint is 120 on a scale of 0 to 255.

[R C-R]

16 hours ago, BlueSquirrel said:

Also on paint, I'm able to get Hue Sat Lum AND RGB in same dialog window. How do I do this in AD?

Double-click on a large round color sample in the Colors Studio panel (or at the bottom of the Tools panel if you have set it to use 2 or more columns) to bring up the Color Chooser window. In the Mac version, it looks like this:

[BlueSquirrel]

Thanks all.

I think the MS paint thing just added confusion. My settings are right in doc and app pref, sRGB and RGB/b. Its confusing to my eye that royal blue goes thru greys, then browns (or yuck green...or whatever the name). I can't tell if it's my eyes or screen or what...I would think as I reduce blue and move towards the Black / White range, I would end up with a true gray.